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Starting Thursday, there is one more thing that air travelers must leave at home: lighters.Unlike guns, knives and other dangerous items that a passenger cannot carry on in his pocket but may stow in checked bags, lighters are banned from anywhere on a plane. It s been 3 1/2 years since 9/11 and they ve finally figured it out, said Mark Peterson, a Sioux Falls, S.D., appraiser who was grabbing a smoke outside Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday. The rule change is expected to produce a large number of seizures of lighters even though airports, airlines and the government have been telling travelers stanley kubek for the past 45 days about the impending ban. I m sure we ll have a bunch of them, said George Doughty, executive director of Lehigh Valley International Airport in Allentown, Pa. Screeners from the Transportation Security Administration have been more vigilant about finding and seizing banned items than were the private screeners who worked stanley polska at airports before the Sept. 11 hijackings.Lighters have not been permitted in checked bags for at least 30 years because they might start fires in cargo holds. Congress passed a bill last year adding lighters to the list of prohibited items in the cabin.The genesis for stanley us the ban was Richard Reid, who tried unsuccessfully to light explosives hidden in his shoes on a trans-Atlantic flight in 2002. He used matches. The sponsors of the ban, Democratic Sens. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota and Ifhl Mueller probe: Two prosecutors leave special counsel s office
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